South Africa’s team for the International Olympiad in Informatics (IOI2021) has emerged with a bronze medal and one award after the global event.
IOI2021 is a prestigious international Informatics challenge held annually. While this year’s event was hosted by Singapore, participants competed virtually from their home countries due to COVID-related travel restrictions.
South Africa’s team of four […]
South Africa’s annual Computer Applications Olympiad has been extended by a week to allow time for more learners to participate.
The Olympiad, a challenge for those who take CAT or the ICDL or are otherwise computer literate, is a project of the Institute of Information Technology Professionals South Africa (IITPSA) to encourage the development of ICT […]
IITPSA Announces 2020’s Leading Lights at Virtual President’s Awards Event
The Institute of Information Technology Professionals South Africa (IITPSA) capped an unusual year and its first ever virtual President’s Awards ceremony by naming joint winners of the Visionary CIO of the Year Award this month.
Dr Stanley Mpofu, CIO of the University of the Witwatersrand, and Nomthi […]
ICT professionals, security and governance teams have a duty of care to ensure that the systems people depend on are properly patched and updated, and failure to do so might be seen as a failure of both ethics and internal controls.
So says the Institute of Information Technology Professionals South Africa (IITPSA), which was responding to […]
The President and Board Chair of the Institute of Information Technology Professionals South Africa (IITPSA), Thabo Mashegoane, has been elected Chair of the Africa ICT Alliance (AfICTA).
Aa private sector-led alliance of ICT Associations, multinational corporations, companies, organisations and individuals in the ICT sector in Africa, AfICTA aims to fulfil the promise of the digital age […]
CIOs have a crucial and multi-faceted role to play in helping their organisations transform for the digital age. This is according to Sandra La Bella, winner of the Visionary CIO title at the Institute of Information Technology Professionals South Africa (IITPSA) Presidents Awards 2019, and Executive of Information Technology, the Unlimited, who was speaking on […]
Lockdowns associated with the COVID-19 pandemic proved to be an eye-opener in terms of how far South Africa must still go to overcome the digital divide, and bring millions of citizens into the digital economy.
This is according to speakers at a webinar endorsed by the Institute of Information Technology Professionals South Africa (IITPSA) and hosted […]
The Institute of Information Technology Professionals South Africa (IITPSA) has urged a concerted effort to take digital access to every South African, to support youth development and small business growth.
Speaking at the IITPSA’s first online AGM earlier this month, IITPSA President Thabo Mashegoane highlighted the Institute’s focus on the development of young ICT professionals and […]
The Institute of Information Technology Professionals South Africa (IITPSA) outlines safer online meeting and home network measures
Home-based workers are at increased risk of cyber attack, but there are several measures they can take to reduce risk.
This is according to Bryan Baxter, a corporate IT business development manager and IITPSA KZN chapter committee member, who was […]
Robotic Process Automation (RPA) adoption is lagging in South Africa, and local organisations must move to organise their processes and start deploying RPA if they are to catch up with growing global progress towards hyper-automation.
This is according to Johan Steyn, chair of the Institute of Information Technology Professionals South Africa (IITPSA)’s AI and Robotics special […]
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